Brahms Double Concerto/Mendelssohn Violin Concerto

(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Bernard Haitink | Itzhak Perlman

There is some magnificent playing in the Double Concerto from Perlman and Rostropovich, as one would expect, but the recording...

Reviewed in issue 5/1989

Handel Acis and Galatea - Arranged by Mendelssohn

Christoph Prégardien | Dunedin Consort | Dunedin Players | Göttingen Festival Orchestra | John Butt | Julia Kleiter | Matthew Brook | Nicholas Hurndall Smith | Nicholas McGegan | Nicholas Mulroy

Handel’s Acis and Galatea has been recorded often, but the original version written for small-scale performance by only five singers...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 1/2009

Heifetz plays Mozart/Mendelssohn/Vieuxtemps

Jascha Heifetz | John Barbirolli | London Philharmonic Orchestra | London Symphony Orchestra | Malcolm Sargent | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Thomas Beecham

Heifetz had to wait until the age of 33 before recording his first concerto. He had made dozens of records...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

MENDELSSOHN Mass and Motets

Frieder Bernius | Stuttgart Vocal Ensemble

Born in 1855, less than a decade after his celebrated cousin Felix had died, Arnold Mendelssohn was a close contemporary...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2012

Klemperer conducts Mendelssohn/Liszt/J.Strauss II

Annie Fischer | Heather Harper | Janet Baker | Otto Klemperer | Philharmonia Chorus | Philharmonia Orchestra

Annie Fischer's performance of the Liszt concerto combines perfection and brilliance of technique with poetic insight and a very distinct,...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Sibelius/Mendelssohn/ Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Thomas Beecham

Hot on the heels of the Dutton transfer of Beecham's 1942 recording of the Sibelius Seventh Symphony (7/95) comes a...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1995

JS BACH St Matthew Passion (arr Mendelssohn)

Bach Festival Orchestra | Bethlehem Bach Choir | Christopher Jackson | Clara Rottsolk | Dann Coakwell | Enrico Lagasca | Isaiah Bell | Luthien Brackett | William Sharp

The story of how the 20-year-old Mendelssohn revived the unknown St Matthew Passion by Bach at a series of performances...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024

Mendelssohn Symphony No 2, 'Lobgesang'

No work of Mendelssohn has soared so high and sunk so low as this symphony-cantata composed for the Leipzig celebrations...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/2011

Schumann Symphonies No.s 3 & 4

London Classical Players | Roger Norrington

Issued originally in 1990 and 1991, both these discs represented an extension of repertory for Norrington and the London Classical...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2000

Abschied vom Walde

Dresden Vocal Concert | Peter Kopp

“Music will perhaps be a profession for [Felix] while for you it will and always should only be an attractive...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2010